The voting for the Smythe has never been released as far as I know. And you know me as someone that would research that big time.

The only time I've really ever seen anything even reference Conn Smythe voting is in the 1992 Finals one of the Pittsburgh papers said that Barrasso finished 2nd to Lemieux in voting, but there was never anything to really back that up numerically. Nor do I know how that information was gathered.

The award has been around for near 50 years, and I can't really even think of another reference to second place (much less total voting) in any other instance...

SST, mikey, thanks. I was curious the way that series played out how close Fleury might have been (if the last two games had any sway in the voting). Doesn't really matter in the end. Just strange, in that the vote totals for the regular season awards are almost always available.

relantel wrote:SST, mikey, thanks. I was curious the way that series played out how close Fleury might have been (if the last two games had any sway in the voting). Doesn't really matter in the end. Just strange, in that the vote totals for the regular season awards are almost always available.

Yeah, I'm not sure why they aren't released. It would probably be even more obvious that most of the media doesn't "get it" today maybe, unlike back in the day.

From memory, I believe the voting is conducted at the 2nd intermission in the potential elimination game (something like 12 or 15 writers) and if that turns out to not be the elimination game, the voting is scrapped and the process repeats the next game. So, Fleury's save on Lidstrom would not have factored into the voting, as (un)luck would have it...